In previous TR's Suzy and Milo have traded babysitting with Donald and I so we can each have a date night. But Charming was finally old enough, with the help of Mulan to babysit. So we all decided we would go out together! And we knew just where we wanted to go.
A few years back we planned a trip for friends and the mom's very favorite thing was her date night with her dh to the dueling pianos at Jellyrolls.
So after Suzy and I tried to figure out how to seperate our Starwood points at the front desk, and we changed, we headed out for an 8:00 p.m. appointment with some pianos.
I had brought a special outfit. Suzy had not. So we laughed about that as we walked along, free of children. You know how spectacularly free you feel when no one is around to call you mom and demand things of you? That is exactly how I felt as I walked down this walkway:
On the walk I checked to make sure I had my license as I am ALWAYS carded even at 37. Bought beer three days ago, carded. Bought rum tonight, carded. But Milo and Donald haven't been carded since they turned 21. Why are women thought to be liars? Anyway, they made fun of me and said after age 30 saying you're carded is bragging.
I only tell you this story because as we paid our cover charge I was NOT carded and was excited until Suzy said they don't card people at Jellyrolls because no one under 21 would ever WANT to come in the place. And truth be told, it is a bar for the older set. Anyway, this just got me giggling as we walked in there were only 8 people in the place and they were all over 50. Not exactly a happening spot. As the night progressed it did fill up a bit more but except for one very geeky table of graduate students we were the youngest.
First, since grabbing a table wasn't a priority, we headed over to the bar:
Suzy picked a drink from the list of possible drinks. To say she hated it would be a BIG understatement. It tasted like some dreadful medicine that you must choke down. Suzy would have suffered through it. I took it back to the bartender and asked for something different. He asked me what she like and gave him a description of what she likes. We did a little better with drink number two. And he confessed that everyone dislikes the first drink. I found that so weird as their are only 3 featured drinks on the wall. So one of them is dreadful and everyone knows that? This seems rather stupid.
Once we had our drinks, the first pair of piano players came out.
They, too, were really excited to see the big crowd of basically, well, us. Had we known how this whole thing worked we would have sat down front and given them songs to play. But we didn't know how it worked so we stayed at our back table and let the old fogies as them to play boring Billy Joel songs.
If you ever go here you can request ANY song. Literally. Does not have to be a piano song at all. They will adapt anything. The requests stay in a pile on top of the piano with the money tip on it. They don't put the cash in their tip jar until they've played the song. And seriously, I can't promise they'll play your tune, but people requested all kinds of music and they made it piano/jazzy. Awesome!
After we had been there about a half hour, I got a text from Mulan that she had vomited. I went outside to call her. You can imagine, this greatly stressed me out and I really wanted to just leave. I asked her where (near the bathroom) and if she had cleaned it up (she said yes.) So we asked if we could stay out and she said yes.
So when I got back, Donald bought me this:
It started to fill up and they dimmed the lights and the second pair came out. The party had begun. I got up to potty. Coolest potty EVER!
I also tried to video tape these guys and got in trouble like 5-6 times. Do NOT try and video tape. Not with your phone, not with your regular camera. I was a slow learner.
Charming sent us a picture of the sleeping babies and we started to relax into the evening. Look what cute love birds they are:
I loved this place and HIGHLY recommend it if you are over the age of, say, 28? Maybe 35? Loved it!
When we got back to the room it smelled DREADFUL. And the smell never went away. I tried to clean it up but it was all over the walls. When I got it to a less embarassing point, I called housekeeping and gave her a $20 and she scrubbed for 30 minutes. She tried really, really hard but literally it never stopped smelling like puke.
I have no idea why.
Mulan never vomited again and no one else got sick. I really think she had hated the fish place so much. I really do. I will NEVER take her back to such a place. Never.
Anyway, I'm gonna go back to Jellyrolls and have a better overall experience. It in itself was a great experience but the night was sullied so I didn't have the kind of fun I should have had.
Go if you get a chance!
After the vomit was 95% cleaned up, we all went to bed. Cause you know us, rope drop in the mornings!
I just booked most of our Nov/Dec trip including a 2 night kid-free stay at the Swan, so I was very glad to see that you enjoyed it!
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). The first kid-free night we're going to stay out on the coast and tour the Kennedy Space Centre (we had planned to do this on our 2009 trip but ended up not when the girls panicked at the thought of leaving WDW property...I think Jean thought they wouldn't let us back in 
I am loving your TR. Also love that you are from Ohio AND Bengals fans! We stayed at the Beach Club about 4 years ago and ate at Cape May for both the Clam Bake and the character breakfast. Absolutely loved both! I highly recommend them. Now off to start reading your pretrippie!
